Comments on: The final nail in Triana’s coffin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/06/the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/06/the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin/#comment-6518 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:44:29 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=778#comment-6518 Selling the spacecraft is an excellent suggestion that I fully support. How close is it to being complete?

— Donald

]]> By: Dennis Ray Wingo http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/06/the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin/#comment-6517 Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:23:43 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=778#comment-6517 Triana was the project that just kept costing more and more money. It was originally supposed to be a $75M dollar project that eventually balooned to$275M dollars. The primary objection by many is that the mission was not competed and the science, (which was added much later after the initial round of criticism) was never subjected to the process where its value was traded against other scientific priorities.

NASA could donate the spacecraft to anyone in the commercial world that wanted to fly it and and then sell the data on the international market.

Dennis

]]> By: ken murphy http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/06/the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin/#comment-6516 Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:18:17 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=778#comment-6516 Why not put it up for sale and see if anyone wants to buy it? Heck, if they can get good money for it I say go for it.

But it’ll probably end up in a museum somewhere…

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/01/06/the-final-nail-in-trianas-coffin/#comment-6515 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:41:28 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=778#comment-6515 While I opposed the original Republican efforts to kill this project as hypocritical partisan politics at its worse, at this point in time I think this is probably the correct decision. In the VSE, today, NASA has more important fish to fry. While the advance warning of solar storms will probably be an essential service in the near future, not least because of the VSE, I also think this is an ideal opportunity for a new commercial industry. NASA should put out an RFP for the data, and let someone like SpaceDev bid on providing the service with a microsat.

— Donald

[Conflict of Interest Notice: I am a shareholder in SpaceDev.]

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